Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-12-22
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Spanish Article.
| Promptly at the appointed time am
: amid the blast of bugle the fou
matadors. clad in scarlet and eacl
bearing 3 scarlet shawl entered tn
arena accompanied by an alleges
clown. half scarlet and half blue
whose strong point lay in his ability
to make people tired. The two plea
dors, both mounted. entered. ont
bearing pole with sharp spike il
it, and the other carrying four-tined
pitchfork. After many bowls from thu
audience a tame. sad-eyed. half
starved little bull ambled in through
the gate as if his knees were weak and
he was looking for . place to lean
against.
Then one of the picadors jabbcd the
pitchfork into the mild-mannercd lit
tie animal, and the other picador.
riding at full speed. jabbed the spikes
into its rump. The brute kicked and
the crowd howled with delight when
he ran here and there to escape from
his prosecutors. Here the matadors
appeared on the scene and shook their
scarlet shawls in the face of the
creature; but he was evidently a
church member and kept his temper.
Then the picadOrs chased the poor
brute about by jabbing the pitchfork
and the spiked pole into him. until
finally the crowd. seeing that the bull
would not fight, yelled: ''Open the
gate! ''Chase him outr' .'Oh, the
calf!' "He's no goodr' "He's a
sheep!" and such expressions, and
obeying the will of the crowd. the gate
was opened and the bull was chased
out.
The performance was gone through
with seventeen different times. and
only in two instances did the bulls
show any inclination to fight. On the
first occasion small but well-fed
animal made a wild lunge at matador
Immediately upon entering the arena.
The matador, dropping his scarlet
shawl. fled for protection behind one
Of the five ''shiellls" fences built
up just close enough to the wall of the
arena to allow man to slip behind.
The bull tossed the shawl around on
its horns and then plunged wildly at
another matado-. who quickly sought
the protection of a shield. Then the
picadors proddcd the brute most I'M
mercifully, and one of them, Selling
> banderilla. stuck it into the neck
Of the suffering animal, where it hung,
and was covered with blood from the
wound.
The brutal treatment instead of an
gering the bull, seemed to fill him with
fear. but he still continued to plunge
occasionally ut the matadors, and
would doubtless have worked himself
into fury had not the management
answered the cry Of Il couple of spec
tators and turned him out. On the
other occasion savage bull was led
into the arena, and after receiving
couple of thrusts from the picadors,
began to snort and paw the ground
and make things most decidedly lively
for the matadors. Most of the spec
tators were cheering themselves hoarse
40 every new wound was given the
animal when suddenly the gate
WAS opened and out the enraged
bull rushed and was soon be-
yond the sight of the vaqueros who
feigned to pursue him. At this the
patience of the crowd seemed to ex-
haust itself. and the cheers of but a
before we're changed to q |
storm of Kisses and wild bowls,
mingled with cries of "Fra,ul!'' Put
up jobr' ''Give us back our money!!
ste The band struck up u tune. but
it was smothered by yells. and for |
a while pandemoniwm reignesl. From
that moment the crowd became more |
and more dissatisfied and began to
leave. and half an hour after it had |
dispersed, and even the mataslOrs and !
piesdors had left the place. Il was re-
marked that the show had one good |
point: lit had given the civilized
spectators just enough of y Sull-fisht |
to show them what brutal pastime |
the genuine Spanish sport must 49,
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